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Your account in TIME, July 8 of "Blood Gauge" erroneously stated that Dr. William Ferguson Hamilton & Dr. Robert A. Woodbury are of Athens, Ga. These researchers are respectively professor and assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology in the University of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta, founded 1829. Many of the schools of the University of Georgia are in Athens, where the parent university was founded in 1785 (the oldest State university), though of course the School of Technology is in Atlanta...
...Little is famed for his prodigiously long drives. This winter, in his last year at Stanford, he left at the end of the second term, took a few lessons from one-eyed Tommy Armour, turned in the lowest amateur score in the Augusta Masters' Tournament and asked his father for permission to go to England. Said Colonel Little: "You can go-if you will...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband...
...beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available than it has had in a decade...
Standing on the fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...